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Water crisis will make Gaza strip ‘unliveable’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 30th, 2012
Guardian: The Gaza strip faces a water crisis that will soon make it "unliveable" unless plans for a $500m desalination plant are approved by banks, delegates at a water conference in Stockholm were told this week.
Water for the 1.6 million people – half of them children and two-thirds refugees – who live in just 365 sq km of land bordering the Mediterranean comes entirely from the shallow coastal aquifer shared between Gaza, Israel and Egypt, which is only partly replenished each year by rainfall. Decades...
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The E.P.A. Can Fix the Chemical Flaw
Posted by New York Times: Christine Todd Whitman on August 30th, 2012
New York Times: SINCE Sept. 11, 2001, the American government, under two presidents, has taken unprecedented steps to ensure the safety of its citizens. Unfortunately, more than a decade later, a major flaw in our national security remains, leaving millions of Americans at risk. It’s a flaw that policy makers have known about for years but not yet done enough to fix. Hundreds of chemical plants and other facilities maintain large stockpiles of dangerous substances and are in or near major American cities like New...